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*Each year from 2002 to 2012 , received the National Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital certification.
*In 2010, though outstanding performance, won the Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital "Outstanding Award" and placed third among all medical centers in Taiwan
*Received the National Quality Certification (SNQ) certification mark in 2012 and 2013
*In 2012, the hospital emergency medical capability classification, aim to assessing ability to handle including high-risk pregnant women and newborn care, certified as the Southern District Emergency Ambulance Medical Center for High-Risk Pregnancy.
*Tainan City Government health bureaus hand out excellence for “breast feeding in workplace” in 2012
*"Baby-Friendly Angel" the operations, the nation's first hospital for the purposes of providing professional training to non-professionals, giving ample support and care for breastfeeding mothers.
*The certified infertility subspecialty training medical center, one of few in Southern Taiwan.
*Since 2009, The department’s high risk pregnancy division was certified by the Premature Baby Foundation of Taiwan to provide hospital ward care for mother with preterm labor.
Clinical medical services
Gynecologic oncology
1.Specialize in diagnosing and treating tumor of the female reproduction tract
2.Receive transferral and provide professional evaluation to the patients with suspicious or confirmed gynecologic cancer
3.Provide clinical examination and treatment follow-up for the patients with gynecological cancer
4.Perform surgical treatment for all sorts of gynecological cancer
5.Direct chemotherapy for the patients with gynecological cancer
6.Co-operate with the onco-radiologists and assist the patients with gynecological cancer to arrange radiotherapy
7.Provide minimally invasive Robotic gynecologic surgery with DaVinci Surgical System.
8.(8 cases in year 2012, 14 cases in year 2013, 1 cases in year 2014, 10 cases in year 2015)
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Obstetrics for high-risk pregnancy
1.Comprehensive obstetrics services from routine perinatal care to safe delivery process provided by experienced doctors. (The attending doctor for your perinatal care would also be in charge of and attend delivery)
2.Provide fetal heart rate monitoring and fetal growth assessment
3.Fetal biophysical profile
4.Level II ultrasonography (including fetal echocardiography) and 3-D ultrasonography
5.Receive referral and provide consultation for high-risk pregnancy
6.Ultrasound-guided invasive examination and treatment, for example, amniocentesis, performed by experienced doctors
7.Antenatal postnatal health education and breastfeeding education
8.Labor analgesia and postpartum analgesia
9.Prevention of abortion and preterm labor
10.Family planning and contraception
11.Screen for fetal anomalies。
12.Genetic counseling。
13.Co-operation with Cathay Tainan Postnatal nursing center since March, 2014
Contact with our outpatient desk. TEL: 06-2812811 ext. 53270
Center for Reproductive Medicine
The Center for Reproductive Medicine of Chi-Mei medical center provides comprehensive evaluation and consultation for couples with infertility. With our outstanding medical team and advanced laboratory technique, we provides services including:
1.Intrauterine insemination ( IUI ) :
1.Intrauterine insemination is an artificial insemination method. The semen from a women’s husband was washed and concentrated and then the active motile sperms was placed inside the woman’s uterine cavity through cervical cannel on the ovulation day.
2.In Vitro Fertilization & Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET):
3.IVF-ET is an assisted reproductive technique that includes the direct handling and manipulation of oocytes and sperm to achieve fertilization outside the body. The embryo is then transfer to the uterine cavity through the vagina and the cervix
4.Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI):
5.An assisted fertilization technique consisting of the microinjection of a single viable sperm into an extracted ovum. It is used principally to overcome low sperm count, low sperm motility, inability of sperm to penetrate the egg, or other conditions related to male infertility. If there was no sperm within the semen, it is still possible to aspirate few amount of sperm from epididymus or testis. Under a microscope, a healthy sperm is injected into a ovum directly to achieve fertilization. The pregnancy rate is around 40 %.
6.Assisted Hatching:
7.Assisted hatching is a laboratory technique. With assisted hatching, an embryologist creates a small hole in the zona pellucida under a microscope in order to help the embryo to hatch out of the zona pellucida and implant to the wall of the uterus.
8.Semen analysis and special stain:
9.Apart from the standard semen analysis consist of the evaluation of semen volume, sperm concentration and count, the morphology of sperm is able to be observed under microscope with special stain. To know the morphology of sperm enable the doctors to assess the male fertility more precisely.
10.Antisperm antibodies test:
11.When a high number of antibodies against a sperm antigen exist in the male semen or the female cervical mucus, it affects the sperm function. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) could be used to overcome the obstacle.
12.Semen freezing
13.Embryo freezing
14.Laparoscopic surgery:
15.Precise operational procedure provide great help in examination of infertility and treatment of endometriosis.
16.Salpingoscopy:
17.Salpingoscopy is an endoscopic technique that use a thin endoscope with only 0.4mm diameter to directly evaluate the lumen of the fallopian tube and to tunnel the obstruction.
18.Hysteroscopy and Resectoscopy:
19.Hysteroscopy is a tool to diagnose lesions in the uterine cavity. And the resectoscopy is a tool for minimal invasive treatment of intrauterine lesions.
20.Reproductive laparotomic surgery
21.Metroplasty
22.Myomectomy
23.Salpinoplasty and Fallopian tubal reanastomosis
Urogynecology and Pelvic Medicine
The Urogynecology and Pelvic Medicine of Chi-Mei medical center provides diagnosis and treatment for female urinary symptoms (such as urinary incontinence, urinary frequency, urgency) and pelvic organ prolapse (including uterine prolapse, cystocele, and rectocele).
1.Surgical treatment for stress incontinence
2.Midurethral sling surgery is the mainstream of operation to treat stress incontinence. Use a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT/TOT/TVT-O), the operation consists of the character of minimal invasiveness, fast recovery, less pain, and cosmetic wound. The long term successful rate is 90~95%.
3.Pelvic floor reconstruction surgery
4.Use tension-free vaginal mesh, TVM, the pelvic floor reconstruction surgery achieved minimal invasive operation and provide additional support to pelvic organ. This is current main-strain treatment to treat pelvic organ prolapse.
5.Urodynamics
6.Urodynamics is a examination that provide precise diagnosis of urinary storage symptoms (such as urinary frequency, urgency, incontinence and nocturia) and urinary voiding symptoms (such as difficulty in urination, dysuria). It also helps to evaluate urinary symptoms before and after operation of anti-continence surgery, pelvic organ prolapsed, and radical hysterectomy.
7.Pelvic floor rehabilitation
8.Pelvic floor exercises (ie, Kegel exercises)
9.Kegel exercises have been shown to improve the strength and tones of the muscles of the pelvic floor (ie, the levator ani, and particularly the pubococcygeus) and to prevent and treat mild stress incontinence.
10.Biofeedback
11.Biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle retraining is a treatment to help patients learn to strengthen or relax their pelvic floor muscles. These devices allow the patient to receive immediate visual feedback on the activity of the pelvic floor muscles, thereby providing incentive and confirmation of proper performance of the muscle contractions. According to current studies, 60~80% of the patients with urinary incontinence benefit from biofeedback therapy. The suggested rehabilitation course is twice a week for 3 months.
Electrical stimulation
This treatment involves stimulation of levator ani muscles using painless electric currents. According to current studies, 50~70% of the patients with urinary incontinence benefit from electrical stimulation. The suggested rehabilitation course is twice a week for 3 months.